<p>Actually, someone I know who is a Cornell student says that drinking and partying there are pretty heavy - you don't have the "city" to escape to like at Harvard or Columbia, so they pretty much make their own fun. This makes sense, as Cornell is isolated like Dartmouth.</p>
<p>tore: I can indeed read. I was basing that on some other posts I have seen from mensa in the past, which seemed to indicate a strong bias against drinking in general.</p>
<p>I would like to say that I'm drinking beer right now and it's fantastic. I don't know what you guys are talking about. This doesn't mean I'm vomiting or passing out: I think that's as lame as you do, mensa. But only alcoholics and immature people drink until they vomit; so why let the actions of a few speak badly for alcohol in general? Don't throw out the baby with the bath water, you know? I mean, jeez, some people use the internet as a means to access child pornography, but does that make the internet inherently bad?</p>
<p>My apologies, then. I am used to people jumping to conclusions around here (especially with mensa) lol</p>
<p>It makes one a bit wary.</p>
<p>Apology accepted. I've noticed the trend towards jumping to conclusions as well. I suppose when you have a board with so many posters who say exactly the same things over and over again (<em>whine</em> "What are my chances?" <em>whine</em>), you stop reading past the first few sentences of anything. ;)</p>
<p>It's true lol</p>
<p>kitkattail - right now, i'd say the most annoying thing is the preponderance of people FREAKING OUT about interviews, and I think I've seen approximately 12 separate threads asking "Has everyone got their interview yet? OMG I HAVEN'T WAAAAAAAAA"</p>
<p>Dartmouth is more than just thursday to saturday.</p>
<p>Because it’s only three classes at a time there is only one block of morning classes tuesdays and thursdays (10 AM), so most people don’t have it. This means mondays and wednesdays are some of the biggest party nights. Thursday, however, isn’t that huge (though bigger than tuesday). And then of course there’s the weekend.</p>
<p>cornell, penn, dartmouth are all major party schools, and thus drinking.</p>
<p>There is drinking everywhere, and non-drinking social scene everywhere. Grow up guys.</p>
<p>Agree w/ ^ Til. There is a major drinking scene at every one of the Ivies.</p>
<p>BTW, Cornell’s wine class is often brought up. It is actually a serious academic course. It is apparently only offered pass/fail (not sure if that is for non hotel majors only) and is often failed. </p>
<p>You have to be 21 to take the class if you are not in the major. So seniors take it as a fun easy class. Wrong! It is obviously not about just wine tasting.</p>
<p>Anybody heard about a drink called the Three Wise Men. It doesnt happen in the ivies.</p>
<p>^ Lie. Happens at Yale (Toad’s) all the time.</p>
<p>The only answer to the thread title is, “It happens. A lot.”</p>
<p>College is college, and just like anywhere else, drinking is around if you want it to be and not if you don’t at all of these places.</p>
<p>I have heard tell of a shot glass (mug?) with a top line of Dartmouth, a 3/4 line of Princeton, a 1/2 line of Yale, and a 1/4 line of Harvard.
About right from my experience, and my kids’.</p>
<p>The OP is heading into her last semester at Dartmouth. I think it’s a bit late for input.</p>
<p>true, but for those of us who havent decided on college yet, it’s an interesting read :)</p>
<p>I don’t know if most colleges have this, but I know Brown has specific substance-free floors, where all the students in the floor are not supposed to drink or do drugs on that floor. This means all the people who request substance-free get put together. This creates an interesting atmosphere, where nobody’s pressured to drink, and yet it’s there and available if you want it. And for the most part, I’ve found the substance-free floors to be at least as social as the other floors in my dorm.</p>
<p>That may be so from the outside, chsowlflax, but a lot of people have bad experiences with sub-free housing which is why most end up not in sub-free the next year.</p>